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When you grow up, you don't realize that your parents are any different than anybody else's. And their behavior - you have nothing to compare it to. So that is what normal is, even if it's abnormal.

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Sometimes good news is hard to absorb.

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Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, 'Ohhh, it's magic.' Nothing's magic. A thing doesn't jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten the scene. Rewrite the character. Maneuver the waters. Seeming easy is why so many shows aren't good.

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I really enjoyed writing the adaptation of 'Into The Woods.' I thought it was wonderful to not be the director, frankly. I really enjoyed that aspect of it.

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I designed a theater magazine that was full of plays and essays about the theater, and then I worked at a theater school. By osmosis or something, I was learning from reading plays and not being analytical about them, but when I would read them, the joy in me was mostly from imagining them in my head and visualizing them.

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Meryl Streep's really smart, and she's a film animal, and she knows that.

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I like the stage challenges of having somebody literally falling apart before your very eyes.

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I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

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I love the visual aspect of the theater. But I like what people have to say, too.

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In most audience-participation shows, the participant is so clearly not a part of what's going on that it's the fish-out-of-water aspect that makes it funny.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: January 1st, 1949

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